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Achievement Awards Demonstration program
Description
Data from a randomized trial of the Achievement Awards Demonstration program, reported in Angrist & Lavy (2009).
Usage
AchievementAwardsRCT
Format
A data frame with 16526 rows and 21 variables:
- school_id
Fictitious school identification number
- school_type
Factor identifying the school type (Arab religious, Jewish religious, Jewish secular)
- pair
Number of treatment pair. Note that 7 is a triple.
- treated
Indicator for whether school was in treatment group
- year
Cohort year
- student_id
Fictitious student identification number
- sex
Factor identifying student sex
- siblings
Number of siblings
- immigrant
Indicator for immigrant status
- father_ed
Father's level of education
- mother_ed
Mother's level of education
- Bagrut_status
Indicator for Bagrut attainment
- attempted
Number of Bagrut units attempted
- awarded
Number of Bagrut units awarded
- achv_math
Indicator for satisfaction of math requirement
- achv_english
Indicator for satisfaction of English requirement
- achv_hebrew
Indicator for satisfaction of Hebrew requirement
- lagscore
Lagged Bagrut score
- qrtl
Quartile within distribution of lagscore, calculated by cohort and sex
- half
Lower or upper half within distribution of lagscore, calculated by cohort and sex
Source
References
Angrist, J. D., & Lavy, V. (2009). The effects of high stakes high school achievement awards : Evidence from a randomized trial. American Economic Review, 99(4), 1384-1414. doi:10.1257/aer.99.4.1384